Window screen



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WINDOW SCREEN Filed Jan. 30, 19.52 2 Sheets-Sheet l 511k M, 3933 H. E. WILLHAMS r-:r AL. 39913073 WINDOW SCREEN Filed Jan. so, 1952 2 sheets-sheet 2 Patented `luly 11, 1933 UNrrs STATES HAROLD E. vWILIJAMS, HOWARD I.. GARIGUES, AND WILLIAM F. RICHARDSON, OF CARTHAGE, MISSOURI, ASSIGNORS TO I-I. E. WILLIAMS PRODUCTS COMPANY, OF CAR-THAGE, MISSOURI, A. CORPORATION OF MISSOURI v 'Y WINDOW SCREEN Application filed January 30, 1932. Serial No. 589,810.

Our invention relates to improvements in window screens. It relates particularly .to elastic'screens and methods ofinaking same.

One of the objects ofv our invention is to provide a. novel screen of the kind described, which is simple, cheap, durable, not likely to get out of order, which is adapted for windows of different widths and for easy and secure attachmentto automobiles of different types, any alteration of the automobile, and which can be easily and quickly applied to or removed from its operative position by an unskilled person. It also provides a novel method of making the screen.

The novel features of our invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrative ofthe preferred embodiment and modifications of our invention,

Fig. 1 is an insideelevation ofv a portion of a screen embodying one form of our invention, shown partly applied to a` windshield window.

Fig. 2 is a similar viewof the saine shown in operative position.y Y

Fig. 3 is an enlarged view, partly in elevation and partlyV in section of the screen shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. e is al section on the Fig. 3.

line fl--ll of Fig. 5 1s an outside elevation, enlarged,

and *partlyv broken away, of the screen :tastenin'g device shown in Figs. l and 2, shown applied to the cowl, a Vpart of which is shown. y

Fig. 6 is a top view ofthe same.

Fig. 7 is an inside elevation, partly broken 'uva-y, ofV the 'screen illustrated in Figs. l to 6.

Fig. 8 is an outside elevation of a modification of our invention, shown mounted in windshield window, part 'of the wire netting being omitted.

Fig. 9 is an enlarged vertical section on the plane of the line 9-9 of Fig. 8.

Fig. 10 is a section, enlarged, on the lin'c 10-10 of Fig. S. Y y

Fig. 11 is an enlarged perspective view, partly broken away, of the screen fastenwhich vdoes not require in its use form ing device,l shown at the right in Fig. 8, mounted on a portion of the cowl.

Fig. 12 is a horizontal sectional View, on the line 12-12 of Fig. 13, of another modii'ication of our invention, shown mounted in a window, portions of the jambs of which are shown. y

Fig. 13 is a section on the line 13-13 of Fig. 12.

Fig. 14 is an enlarged view, partly in cross section, of an upper corner portion of the screen shown in Fig. 1. V

Similar characters of reference designate similar parts in the different views.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 7, 1 designates the usual windshield vertically slidable in guides 2 of the jambs 3 of'an automobile windshield window. 4l designates that rear portion of the cowl of the machine which is located at the inner side of the windshield and at the lower part of the window. In the forni shown in Figs. l, 2 and 5, thisV portion of the cowl lis provided at its upper part with a forwardly extending flange 5.

The parts just referred to are parts of a machine of a type ingeneral use.

For screening the opening below the wind# y shield 1, when the latter is raised, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, we provide a screen cornprising the following described parts.

6 designates woven wire netting of a fineness, as shown, adapting it to exclude in` sects, such as flies, bugs or mosquitoes and adapted to lbe extendcdlengthwise across a window opening, such as is normally closed by the windshield 1. "The crossed wires of the'netting 6 are disposed obliquely to the longitudinal edges of the netting, whereby the netting is adapted for extension or contraction in length. Said longitudinal edges of the netting 6 are fastened to longitudinal elastic binding, which as shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 7 comprises two longitudinal spiral springs 7 which are respectively fastened to the folded over longitudinal edges of the nettin@ 6 by being screwed lengthwise into longitudinal engagement with the meshes of said folded over portions.

Two elastic tubes 8, preferably of soft rubber, respectively embrace Vsaid springs 7,

said tubes being longitudinally slit, the longitudinal edge portions of the netting 6 being respectively extended through the slits of the tubes, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4l. The ends of the rubber tubes 8, as are the ends of' the spiral springs 7, are fastened to two folded end plates 9 between which are respectively fastened the ones ofthe netting 6. i

For holding the longitudinally elastic screen so formed stretched in operative position, as shown in Fig. 2 across the window opening, the end plates 9 each has fastened to it two ring clips 10. |The two pairs of ring clips 10 are respectively slidably mounted on two screen holding devices, comprising, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7, two wire members 11 and 12, each .having at its lower end a hook 13 adapted to rest on the top of the flange 5, of the cowl el, and each having Y a rearwardly extending arm 14 adapted to engage the under side of the flange 5. The upper ends of the members 11 and 12 are provided respectively with two laterally outwardly extending arms 15 ada ated toA respectively bear against the jambs 3 and rear sides of thc windshield guides 2.

The hooks 13 of the wire members 11 and 12k are reversely disposed, as shown inFig. 7, with vthe arms 14 at the outer sides laterally of the points at which the hooks bear upon the upper side of the flange 5, whereby, when the screen is stretched, as shown in Fig. 2, the elastic tension of the screen will cause the hooks 13 to crampingly engage the upper and lower sides of the flange 5, thereby holding the screen stretched in its operative position. y

In mounting the screen shown in Figs. 1 to 7, the screen, which is normally shorter than the, width of the window opening across which it is to be stretched, has the hooks 13 mounted on the cowl flange 5 with the arms 14 engaging the under side of lthe flange, after which the members 12 and 11 are forced laterally outwardly to the vertical position, shown in Figs. 1 and 7 with the arms 15 respectively. bearing-against the jambs 3 and against the inner sides of the guides 2. The hooks 13 crampingly engaging the flange 5 will firmly holdthe screen stretched in this operative position, the netting 6. by reason of its wires being oblique to the length of the screen and to the springs 7, permitting of the extension of the netting with the rubber tubes 8 and the spiral springs 7.

In tl e forni shown in Figs. S to 11, Jthe netting 6 has binding at its upper and lower longitudinal edges comprising folded elastic fabric 16 sewed or otherwise secured to said edge portions. The wires of the net-- ting are disposed oblique to the longitudinal bound edges, so that the netting is extensible and contractible as to length, the elastic binding 16 serving to normally contract the screen. By having the elastic binding folded over and embracing and' attached to opposite side edge portions of the netting, as shown in Figs. 11 and 14, a smooth finish is imparted to such edge portions and the ends of the wires of the netting are protected and prevented from catching thc Vclothing or scratching the hands of a person handling ythe screen.

To hold the screen stretched across a window, two upright channel plates 17, having their channels facing outwardly, clamp the en ds of the netting 6 and the binding 16 Fig. 10.`

Each plate 17 has a ring clip 18 vertically adjustable en an end supporting member 19 comprising a wire having at its upper end a laterally outwardly extending arm 2O adapted to bear against the adjacent jamb and Aagainst the inner side of the windshield guide 2. The lower ends of the members 19 are respectively provided with two inwardly extending arms 21 respectively pivoted in two loops 22 provided on the upper sides respectively of two anchoring plates 23 which rest on the top of the flange 5, and are provided each at its end with a downwardly extending hook 24 adapted to re-` leasably engage the adjacent end of the flange 5 to hold thel screen stretched. The forward edge of each anchoring plate .23 has a downwardly extending forwardly turned flange 25 adapted to releasably engage the front edge of the cowl flange 5, for holding the anchoring plate 23 from rearward movement.

A rubber band 26 encircles each plate 23 lengthwise thereof and bears against the flange 5 to protect the latter from being marred by the plate 23.

The screen, as shown in Fig. 9 extends below the cowl flange 5 and at its front side bears against the rear edge of a rubber seat 27 on top of the cowl and against which the lower edge of the windshield 1 rests when in the lowered position.

In Figs. 12 and 13 is shown another Inodi iication similar to the one shown in Figs. 8, 9 and 10, provided with the elastic screen having the netting 6 bound at its upper and lower edges by elastic binding 16, and having at its ends the end plates 17, which are respectively attached to the jambs 3 by screws '28.

In each form of the invention the screen extends, as shown, above the lower edge of the windshield 1 when the latter is raised.

By having the screens shown in Figs. 1, 8 and 13 longitudinally elastic, they are adapted to be fitted to windows of different widths and are held stretched and under tension. l

le do not limit our invention t0 the structures shown and described, as other modifications, within the scope ol' the. appended claims may be used, without departing 'from the spirit of our invention.

lVhat we claim is l. An elastic screen comprising two longitudinal spiral springs, and a longitudinally extensible and eontractible woven wire screen having folded opposite long udinnl edge portions with which said springs have respectively interwoven engagement.

2. An elastic screen comprising two lon git-udinal spiral springs, a longitudinally extensible and contractible woven wire screen opposite longitudinal er portions of which have respectively interwoven engagement with said springs, and two longitudinally slit elastic tribes respectively en circling said springs and through the slits ot which said edge portions respectively extend.

3. A longitudinally elastic woven wire screen, and means adapted for releasable holding engagement with the cowl o'l an automobile for holding the screen stretched across the front window opening of the antornobile.

4l. A longitudinally elastic woven wire screen, and two devices respectively attached to the ends of the screen and having means adapted for engagement with the cowl of an automobile and with the `iambs respectively of the front window or' the automobile for holding the screen stretched across the front window opening.

5. A woven wire screen, and two devices respectively attached to the ends thereof and having means for releasably lockingly engaging the cowl of an automobile, whereby the screen is adapted to be held stretched across the front window opening of the automobile.

6. A woven wire screen, and two devices respectively attached to the ends thereof, each of said devices having means adapted to releasably crainpinglv engage the upper and lower' sides or" a portion of the cowl at the rear of the 'front window of' an automobile, whereby the devices are held from movement toward eachV other and the screen is held stretched across the iront window opening.

7. A woven wire screen, and two devices respectively attached to the .ends thereof,

each .of said dcviceshaving a hook adapted for releasable holding engagement with a portion of the cowl at the rear of the front window olf an automobile, whereby the screen is adapted to be held stretched across the front window opening.

8. A woven wire screen, and two deviczizsv respectively attached to the ends thereof, each of said devices having a hook adapted to rest on the upper sid-e of a forwardly eX- tending portion of' the cowl at the rear o'l the liront window of an automobile, and having an arm adapted to extend under and engage the under side of said portion, whereby said hook is adapted to lockingly engage said portion and be held thereby from movement thereon in one direction.

In testimony whereof we aiix our signa-- tures.

HAROLD E. WILLIAMS. HOIVARD L. GARRIGUES. TWILLIAM F. RICHARDSON.

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